PRM 10

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP91M00696R000200090026-8
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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 31, 2004
• Sequence Number: 26
• Publication Date: March 4, 1977
• Content Type: MF

The Director of Central Intelligence
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4 March 1977
MEMORANDUM FOR: Assistant to the President for National Security
FROM : Admiral Stansfield Turner, USN
Director of Central Intelligence (Designate)
SUBJECT : PRM 10
1. I have reviewed the draft terms of reference for PRM 10
distributed on 2 March, and in general concur. The Intelligence
Community will give support of PRM 10 its highest priority.
2. In order for this study to be completed within the
deadlines established, it will be necessary for the Working Groups
to define as precisely as possible the specific supporting work
they will require. I therefore urge that they take as their
first task the preparation of detailed outlines, before task
forces are formed and extensive drafting begins. In this con-
nection, the valuable work done for NSSM 246 should be utilized
whenever relevant.
3. We note that the study calls for consideration of the
usual range of alternative strategies for US/USSR confrontation.
It would be useful if the Working Groups would give some of their
attention to ways of breaking out of this framework. Otherwise,
the final study is likely to produce a range of force postures
quite similar to those of previous studies.
4. The multiplicity of contingencies (Para. IIB2) may hinder
rather than help a net force posture assessment. The second sen-
tence of that paragraph might be worded: The following kinds of
contingencies, might be considered: (Final selection to be ma e
Force Posture Workin Group). Also in this paragraph, an explicit
reference might be made to China, however low we rate its present
threat.
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D/DCI/NI: Lehman:lm (4 Mar 77)
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t~~tac~hea is a memoranciuum to Ur, brzezi nsk1
on PRM 10., revised as you requested this morning. ~
I believe that your concern that the study be
narrowed to something realistically do-able in
the time we have would have more impact if you
added it in long-hand, as you suggested. For
this reason I have not strengthened that portion
of the text.
Richard a man
D/DCI/NI
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